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...serenaded Pope John Paul II, who had just turned 68, with a thundering Happy Birthday last week in the Paraguayan town of Encarnacion. During a later appearance, the impassioned chant "Freedom, freedom, freedom!" greeted the Pontiff. The cry was really meant for Paraguay's ironfisted dictator, General Alfredo Stroessner, and the Pope quietly echoed...
FOOTNOTE: *The other: General Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay...
...farmer near Munich; how he had been mistakenly arrested by Italian authorities in 1949 in Genoa, then released three weeks later with friendly apologies; and how he was assisted in South America by Hans-Ulrich Rudel, a Luftwaffe ace and unrepentant Nazi with connections to Paraguayan Dictator Alfredo Stroessner. Nonetheless, the magazine was hedging its bets until three special investigators it had hired had checked the authenticity of all the material at hand. Norbert Sakowski, Bunte's deputy editor in chief, said that he was convinced the documents were genuine, "but I can't rule out the possibility that...
...effort to stay several steps ahead of his pursuers, Mengele was apparently helped by Paraguayan Dictator Alfredo Stroessner, the grandson of a Bavarian cavalry captain and a man of pronounced right-wing views. When, in July 1962, Bonn began agitating for Mengele's extradition from Paraguay, Stroessner responded that he could be of no assistance since Mengele was a Paraguayan citizen and was thus protected. Two years later, the West German Ambassador in Asuncion approached Stroessner again with the request for Mengele, only to be told that it would be best to drop the matter...
...deny categorically that Mengele is in Paraguay," Paraguayan Under Secretary of the Interior Miguel Angel Bestrad said two months before the supreme court ruling. Stroessner himself told an interviewer last March, "I don't know where Mengele is. The Mengele question is a repeat question, like a long-playing record...